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July 2015
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Master Gardener training comes to Dripping
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By Laurel Robertson
he Hays County Master Gardener program has been working to transform greenhorns into green thumbs for the past 21 years. This fall, for the first time in all those years, their Master Gardener’s annual training program will take place in Dripping Springs instead of San Marcos. There’s never been a better time for Dripping Springs residents to join up and learn to “grow green.” Also new this year, the training, which leads to certification as a Texas Master Gardener, has been condensed from sixteen weeks down to eleven - on Tuesday mornings beginning in September and finishing before Thanksgiving. The new schedule covers the same 50 hours of instruction as before, but will be presented in fewer weeks with slightly longer classes, explains HCMG President,
Marilyn Love. “We’re holding the majority of this year’s training classes in Dripping Springs, so people from northern Hays County don’t have to do all the travelling,” she says. Five of the 11 classes will be held at the new Dripping Springs Presbyterian Church on Ranch Road 12 and three will be at the Dripping Springs Ranch Park Event Center. Two classes will be held at the Hays County Extension offices in San Marcos and one at the Freeman Ranch between Wimberley and San Marcos. In a win-win-win deal, in exchange for their use of the Dripping Springs Presbyterian’s meeting space, the training class will donate 150 volunteer hours to the church’s Giving Garden, which donates all its homegrown produce to Dripping Springs’ Helping Hands Food Pantry. Class participants will receive an inSee MASTER GARDENERS, page 2
Kim Middleton LEFT and Jo Hackett, both Master Gardeners, tend the Homegrown Tomatoes Store. Photo courtesy Hays County Master Gardeners.
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